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Post by loobyloo on Oct 30, 2022 17:39:05 GMT 1
SAS: Rogue Warriors
Category: Education/Science/Factual
Season 1 Episode 1 of 3
BBC Four
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Sun 30 Oct 2022
10:00pm-11:00pm (1 hour) Spain 11:00pm-12:00am
Ben Macintyre uses the SAS archives to examine the history of the British Army special forces unit combining documents,
unseen footage and interviews with its founding members to tell the remarkable story behind an extraordinary fighting force.
In the first edition, he looks at its formation in the heat of the north African desert in 1941, when eccentric young British army
officer David Archibald Stirling had a vision for a new kind of war in which the enemy was attacked from behind their own lines
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Post by loobyloo on Nov 6, 2022 9:51:43 GMT 1
SAS: Rogue Heroes
Category: Historical/Period Drama
Season 1 Episode 2 of 6
BBC One
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Sun 6 Nov 2022
9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour) Spain 10:00pm-11:00pm
Stirling's disastrous parachute jump leaves him unable to walk due to serious injuries to his spine, while Lewes receives news that
could end their experiment before it even gets off the ground - he is being sent back to Tobruk and Paddy Mayne is headed for the Far East.
While recovering in hospital, Stirling ruminates on Lewes' plan to attack the enemy from behind and hatches a plan to get approval for their unit from
General Auchinleck at GHQ
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Post by loobyloo on Nov 13, 2022 12:31:05 GMT 1
SAS: Rogue Heroes
Category: Historical/Period Drama
Season 1 Episode 3 of 6
BBC One
Freeview:1Sky:101Virgin:101BT:1Freesat:101
Sun 13 Nov 2022
9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour) Spain 10:00pm-11:00pm
After a period of throwing themselves into the sand from scaffold towers and training in the blistering desert heat, the newly-recruited members
of the SAS are preparing to embark on their first ever operation to parachute into the desert. The mission is an unmitigated disaster, leading most
of the soldiers involved dead - but the survivors remain determined to try again
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Post by loobyloo on Nov 20, 2022 11:07:57 GMT 1
SAS Rogue Heroes
Category: Historical/Period Drama
Season 1 Episode 4 of 6
BBC One
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Sun 20 Nov 2022
9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour) Spain 10:00pm-11:00pm
Fresh from the success of their first airstrip assaults but frustrated at his own personal failure to destroy any enemy targets,
Stirling plans to return to the same airbases for a second strike. As the SAS reputation spreads among the Axis Italian and German forces,
another daring mission results in an attack by enemy aircraft and a shocking and devastating loss to the team
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Post by loobyloo on Nov 27, 2022 12:51:07 GMT 1
SAS Rogue Heroes
Category: Historical/Period Drama
Season 1 Episode 5 of 6
BBC One
Freeview:1Sky:101Virgin:101BT:1Freesat:101
Sun 27 Nov 2022
9:15pm-10:15pm (1 hour) Spain 10:15pm-11:15pm
A group of Free French soldiers arrive in the desert to train with the SAS at their isolated fort, and Paddy reluctantly takes on
the job of training the new arrivals, adopting some unorthodox methods to test their teamwork, initiative, and stamina. As Stirling
prepares to lead a raid on Benghazi, he finds himself with a surprising new recruit - the Prime Minister's son, Randolph Churchill
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 4, 2022 16:17:18 GMT 1
SAS Rogue Heroes
Category: Historical/Period Drama
Season 1 Episode 6 of 6
BBC One
Freeview:1Sky:101Virgin:101BT:1Freesat:101
Sun 4 Dec 2022
9:10pm-10:10pm (1 hour) Spain 10:10pm-11:10pm
Stirling attends a meeting with Winston Churchill, who reassigns the SAS to the Mediterranean to undertake their most daring operation to date -
to simultaneously attack six air bases along the south coast. However, the soldiers are forced to make a difficult choice when they learn of a traitor in their ranks.
In the aftermath of the attack, they are finally granted official regimental status, but Stirling's pride in their achievement is short-lived when he receives shocking news
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